Inyo County Free Library - New Acquisitions
November 2013 - December 2013
These are books and media new to the library and cataloged by the Inyo County Free Library.
Additional information about each title can be found in the catalog (click on the title). For older acquisition lists choose from Select another list. To request any of these titles please contact your local library branch.
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NEW RELEASE By Turow, Scott Publishing Date: 2013 Classification: FIC Call Number: FIC A mayoral candidate's brother is released from prison 25 years after pleading guilty to the murder of his girlfriend, a situation that leads to the re-opening of the case. |
By Vollmann, William T. Publishing Date: 2005 Classification: FIC Call Number: FIC Vollmann presents a mesmerizing series of intertwined paired stories that compare and contrast the moral decisions made by various figures (some famous, some infamous, some unknown) associated with the warring authoritarian cultures of Germany and the USSR from 1900-1968. |
By Watts, Murray Publishing Date: 2001, 2000 Classification: FIC Call Number: FIC Retells the stories of the Gospel through a child's perspective, offering information on the life of Jesus and his work as a healer and radical teacher. - (Baker & Taylor) |
How to live safely in a science fictional universe By Yu, Charles Publishing Date: c2010 Classification: FIC Call Number: FIC Charles Yu, time travel technician, helps save people from themselves in Minor Universe 31, a vast story-space on the outskirts of fiction. When he's not taking client calls, Yu visits his mother and searches for his father, who invented time travel and then vanished. Accompanied by TAMMY, an operating system with low self-esteem, and a nonexistent but ontologically valid dog named Ed, and using a book titled "How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe" as his guide, Yu sets out, and back, and beyond, in order to find the one day where he and his father can meet in memory. |
More stories from the Twilight zone Publishing Date: 2010 Classification: FIC Call Number: SS A second volume edited by the wife of The Twilight Zone creator Rod Serling includes new stories in the style of the original television series, all written by leading genre authors. TV tie-in. - (Baker & Taylor) |
Publishing Date: 2010 Classification: FIC Call Number: SS Tired of the same old fantasy? Here are nineteen much-needed antidotes to clichéd tales of swords and sorcery. Fantasy is back, and it's better than ever! |
Nocturnes: five stories of music and nightfall By Ishiguro, Kazuo Publishing Date: 2009 Classification: FIC Call Number: SS Five interconnected stories in which music is an intrinsic theme follow the struggles of a once-popular singer desperate for a comeback, a songwriter who is unwittingly involved in a failing marriage, and a jazz musician who wrongly believes that plastic surgery will secure his career. - (Baker & Taylor) |
By Kitterman, Barry Publishing Date: 2011 Classification: FIC Call Number: SS In this collection of 13 linked stories, Barry Kitterman brings vividly to life the dusty, fertile San Joaquin Valley, with its orange groves and religious revivals, and its mountains that mark not only the geographical boundary of the region but the limits of the characters' lives.- (Texas A & M Univ) |
Comfort to the enemy, and other Carl Webster stories By Leonard, Elmore Publishing Date: 2010, c2009 Classification: FIC Call Number: SS "The reigning King Daddy of crime writers" (Seattle Times), Elmore Leonard first introduced quick-triggered legendary lawman Carl Webster in the New York Times bestseller, The Hot Kid, and brought him back for an encore Up in Honey's Room. In Comfort to the Enemy and Other Carl Webster Stories, the loose cannon U.S. marshal struts his stuff once more in three electrifying new tales. Comfort to the Enemy is more indisputable proof that Elmore Leonard is indeed, as Dennis Lehane (Mystic River, Shutter Island) puts it, "The greatest crime writer who ever lived." - (HARPERCOLL) |
By Means, David Publishing Date: c2010 Classification: FIC Call Number: SS Presents a collection of thirteen stories, including "The Botch," in which three robbers meet in an abandoned shed to figure out how their attempted robbery went wrong. |
By Noble, Frances Khirallah Publishing Date: 2000 Classification: FIC Call Number: SS Contents: Situe -- Albert and Esene -- Genevieve -- The war -- The table -- The American way -- The hike to Heart Rock -- Sustenance -- Dry goods -- Kahlil Gibran -- The honor of her presence. |
The undivided self: selected stories By Self, Will Publishing Date: 2010 Classification: FIC Call Number: SS Since the release of his first story collection in 1991, Will Self has been hailed as a master of the short story. Now, for the first time, selected stories from his five highly praised collections will be available in one volume, introduced by Rick Moody. These stories, drawn from The Quantity Theory of Insanity, Gray Area, Tough, Tough Toys for Tough, Tough Boys, Dr. Mukti and Other Tales of Woe, and Liver—plus one story never before published—give us unexpected comic twists, masterful language, and the ordinary colored by the absurd: a man who finds his mother walking in a London suburb ten months after her death; the odd nuances of a drab office worker's daily routine; and a send-up of the British elite that takes place after a carcinogenic fog blankets England. Compared favorably to Nabokov, Pynchon, Gaddis, Ballard, and DeLillo, Will Self is a bold satirist whose selected stories represent some of the best and most outrageous fiction of the last decade. - (McMillan Palgrave) |
Like you'd understand, anyway: stories By Shepard, Jim Publishing Date: 2008 Classification: FIC Call Number: SS In his first all new collection of short fiction in more than ten years, the author of Project X presents eleven stories that range across time and geography to offer portraits of the first woman in space and her cosmonaut lover, a compassionate executioner in Revolutionary Paris whose job forces a crisis in conscience, and a middle-aged Aeschylus still seeking parental approval. 15,000 first printing. - (Baker & Taylor) Brimming with irony, compassion, and withering humor, these eleven stories are at once eerily pertinent and dazzlingly exotic, and they showcase the work of a protean, prodigiously gifted writer at the height of his form. Reading Jim Shepard, according to Michael Chabon, "is like encountering our national literature in microcosm." - (Random House, Inc.) |
By Shepard, Jim Publishing Date: 2011 Classification: FIC Call Number: SS Culling the vastness of experience--from its bizarre fringes and breathtaking pinnacles to the desperately below average--like an expert curator, Jim Shepard populates this collection wildly diverse and wholly fascinating characters, like the inventor of the Godzilla epics to a miserable G.I. in New Guinea, each complicit in his or her downfall. |
By Toibin, Colm Publishing Date: 2011 Classification: FIC Call Number: SS A collection of short fiction includes "The Street," in which Pakistani workers in Barcelona pursue a taboo affair; and "Two Women," in which a taciturn Irish set designer confronts repressed emotions while working in her homeland. |
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